The head of UAC Slyusar: the first flight of an import-substituting SSJ will take place in mid-2023

“Next year, we hope, in the middle, there will be the first flight of a fully imported SSJ100.

So, in order to fly off the program of major changes, by the end of the year, start its serial deliveries to airlines, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

Earlier, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov, in an interview with RT, said that they plan to eliminate the dependence of the Superjet 100 (SSJ-100) aircraft on imports by the end of 2023, from 2024 at least 20 aircraft of this type will be produced annually.